_Hendrick Steenwyck, the younger_ (Flemish: 1580-1649).
The elder painter of this name was one of the first to give us
those architectural interiors, which later became a specialty
among various painters (see Havard's _Dutch School_, p. 53).
His son, the younger Steenwyck, adopted the same line of
art. He came to London before 1629, and was much employed in
supplying architectural backgrounds to the royal portraits by
Van Dyck and to other pictures. He died in London after 1649.
A picture for architects to look at. It is the interior of a vestibule
giving access to a library, and is full of inventiveness. Notice, too,
how beautifully the accessories--the tablecloth, the vase of flowers,
etc., are painted.